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Last week the President's five-man medical board turned in its fact-crammed report. For fathers the news was gloomy: combing the nation's 3,357,000 4-Fs would probably produce only about 200,000 fit for active service. Draft boards, already behind in their quotas, would have to 1) quicken the fast pace at which fathers are being inducted, 2) reclassify still more men-single and married-now classed as essential workers...
...season, the Brooklyn Dodgers will wear glistening uniforms of satin-white piped with blue for home games, blue piped with white for road games. Purpose: to keep fans' minds off the quality of the baseball, which will be a motley of under & over draft age, piped with 4-Fs...
Women working in defense plants and home-front tasks release 4-Fs who are capable of every assignment given G.I. gals in the States...
...protect fathers, single men in so-called "essential jobs" will be reconsidered as possible draftees. The lists of 3.6 million 4-Fs will be combed again-just in case there are any almost-healthy men who might, after all, make adequate soldiers. A new five-man medical board will be set up to try to lower the Army's physical standards. But whenever the Army needs young & healthy fathers, they will be called...
...kind that servicemen in the Aleutians are playing). Navy and Marine officials, on the contrary, okayed football for 77,000 bluejackets and leathernecks in 181 colleges with V12 programs. Colleges with no V12 windfall, with or without an A-12 tantalization, had the choice of supporting teams of 4-Fs and 17-year-olds or giving...